Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Killing, dismembering my sister? Yup, that was me.

  Published: July 31, 2007, 11:18 am

  Tags: International Education, Cram, Dismember, Japan, Japanese, School

  They don't call it cram school for nothing.When Japanese fail their college entrance exams they will sometimes/often spend a year or two or three, depending on mom and dad's budget studying for the exam again for the following year.The idea, of course, is to cram as much into the brain in one year as should have been crammed in during the

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• College Students Take Turns as Toilet Cleaners

  Published: July 31, 2007, 10:27 am

  Tags: International Education, China, Chinese, Cleaner, College, Internship, Student, Toilet

  "Look, I'm a brush!""And, I'm a sponge."Everybody should take a turn at cleaning toilets.It happens in the military. It is happening in Shanghaii to college students, who instead of staying home and enjoying a summer break, have taken on an internship to get a taste of 'real life'.Some 150 students from nine

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• Earthquakes Cause Need for Counseling

  Published: July 30, 2007, 1:30 pm

  Tags: International Education, Children, Counseling, Earthquake, Japan, Kashiwazaki, Niigata, School, Tsunami

  Reccently, Niigata prefecture was hit hard by an earthquake.The cities of Kariwa (actually it's a village), where the nuclear power reactors are, and Kashiwazaki were hit the hardest.As a result about 2 percent of school children are now in need of psychiatric counseling. In Kashiwazaki, near the earthquake, the figure is 6.8%. In Kariwa, the

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• Dutch Launch World's Biggest Condom to Teach Youth About STDs

  Published: July 29, 2007, 4:12 pm

  Tags: International Education, Condom, Dutch, Health Service, Safe Sex, Std, World S Largest

  The things kids will do with condoms...especially when they are too young to use them.The things adults will do with condoms...especially when they are too old to use them.The director of a Dutch health service said "Sometimes when kids play with condoms they blow them up like balloons. (I never did that when I was a kid, did you?)He went

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• High School Girl Runs Concert Ticket Scam

  Published: August 1, 2007, 2:18 pm

  Tags: International Education, Cheat, Concert, Fake, Fraud, Japan, Kanjani Eight, Swindle, Tickets

  A kid can't even make pocket money these days, can they?What's wrong with a little entrepreurship, doing business, making a little cash?Plenty - if it's a fraud, a fake, a scam and it's run by a 17-year old high school girl.A young lady swindled 48 people out of about 650,000 yen ($5,800) over five months. $1200/month part time

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• Tsinghua, US University Students Team Up

  Published: August 2, 2007, 7:01 pm

  Tags: International Education, America, Care, Children, China, City, Fural, Tsinghua, University

  Changes take place at the grass roots level.Friendships forged in college last forever and oftentimes the lessons learned outside of the classroom during the college years are the ones that are the most longlasting and valuable.American students are teaming up with some of China's finest to help rural children in China whose parents are

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• How to Dress 145 Monkeys in Black Robes and Have Them Pose for a Picture

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:15 pm

  Tags: International Education, Buddhist, Japan, Monk, Monkey

  How do you dress 145 monkeys in black robes and get them to stand still, well almost, for a picture?Easy...take away their keys and give them an o "k".In Japan, 145 devotees became Buddhists monks in a ceremony yesterday.The group ranged in age from 9 to 59.What's more, they didn't need government approval.I remember when I

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• Special Therapy - Restaurant Offers Special Room for Throwing Dishes

  Published: August 3, 2007, 3:32 pm

  Tags: International Education, China, Dishes, Restaurant, Therapy

  Well, after all you can eat your dinner and throw the dishes, too...preferably in that order.A restaurant in China thinks that some people want to throw dishes at their mates.Bad cooking, maybe?For a minimum charge of about $6.60, customers, after eating, (before, too I reckon) will be led to a room where they can toss up their cookies, er, their

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• Education Board Cracks Down on Obscene Teahcer

  Published: August 4, 2007, 11:14 am

  Tags: International Education, Education, Japan, Japanese, Molest, Punishment, Teacher, Tokyo

  elementary levels.The Tokyo Education board has cracked down on six teachers - one got a pay cut for an inappropriate

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• Hiroshima Universty Students Drink Toilet Water for 14 Years

  Published: August 4, 2007, 9:47 am

  Tags: International Education, Bomb, Hiroshima University, Students, Toilet, Water

  Students at Hiroshima University had another bomb dropped on them this week.The university has learned that due to a plumbing blunder they have been drinking water that was previously meant to move water with other 'bombs' floating in it.Water meant for toilet flushing has been sent to drinking taps for the past 14 years.The university

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• 4 Inventions that Made a Billion Dollars

  Published: August 6, 2007, 4:58 pm

  Tags: International Education, Billionaire, Brad Hughes, Invention, James Dyson, Jeff Bezos, Michele Ferrero

  Thomas Edison said, "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."To make a billion dollars with your invention, it needs to catch on.Here are 4 people whose ideas caught on...Brad Hughes - Real estate exec thought of putting up a bunch of lockers som people could store stuff. Hughes Public Storage is valued at $5.3

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• Why You Shouldn't Jump on the Bed - Pillow Flight - 6-year stumbles over pillow and out the window

  Published: August 6, 2007, 12:47 pm

  Tags: International Education, China, Chinese, Flight, Jump, Pillow

  There's a reason why mom and dad always said to stop jumping on the bed and it has nothing to do with wearing out mattresses and box springs and such.A 6-year old Chinese girl was doing the trampoline thing with two of her girl friends when she stumbled on a pillow and went flying out the window and DOWN four floors."We were dancing on

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• Great-Great-Grandma Gets Masters Degree

  Published: August 6, 2007, 6:57 pm

  Tags: International Education, Australia, Masters Degree, Phd, School

  Great-great-grandma Phyllis left school when she was 12 years old to help her mother care for her siblings because her father had left them. 82 years later she received a Masters Degree in Medical Science from University of Adelaide.The Guiness people say they have a category for the oldest master's graduate but they don't have anybody

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• Tsukuba Professor Arrested for NOT Keeping His Hands to Himself

  Published: August 6, 2007, 6:49 pm

  Tags: International Education, Class, Japan, Learning, Professor, School

  I just finished a blog where I wrote that kids are learning things at school, or at least on school grounds that they should NOT be.Well, it seems that professors in Japan are taking lessons off campus that they should NOT.How about a lesson in how to keep your hands to yourself? A professor at Tsukuba University apparently failed the class

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• 60 Year Education Revolution

  Published: August 7, 2007, 4:08 pm

  Tags: International Education, China, Education, Illiterate, Inner Mongolia, Literate, Mission

  is a nine-year compulsory education

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